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USPS

What Can a Company Do if Freight is Eating Away Profits?

by George Muha on March 25, 2012

Recently I wrote an article titled Knowing How Freight Relates as a Percentage of Invoice.  That article might have hit home for some companies because, believe it or not, many companies have no freaking idea how freight relates as a percentage of invoice.  Nor do they know what to do even if they did know [...]

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Creating More Profitable “FREE FREIGHT” Rules

by George Muha January 16, 2012

HAVING AN EQUALIZED “FREE FREIGHT” PROGRAM KILLS PROFITS, SO CHANGE IT It’s common for shippers to have an equalized free freight program.  What I mean by equalized freight program I am talking about offering “free freight” to customers who purchase a certain amount of volume of goods, regardless of their geographical location.  The problem is [...]

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Top 10 Google Search Tools That Will Help Your Supply Chain

by George Muha May 7, 2010
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The people at Google are truly amazing!  They are evolving their search engine into something that can be incredibly powerful tool for business.  There are a zillion things that Google can do for different parts of your business and in this post, I will highlight the Top 10 Google Search Tools That Will HelpYour Supply Chain.  Since Google is just a [...]

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Linking Your Freight Charges to the Web

by George Muha March 19, 2010

As printed in the Dec 1, 2008 issue of HVACR Distribution Business magazine. One advantage of being a salesperson is seeing how lots of companies in different industries operate and what they are doing to stay ahead of the curve and on the cutting edge. This bird’s eye view helps me report back to my [...]

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